New blog post on the world of portable hi res audio

@mapman  Sounds cool and I'm not familiar with that product. I'll take a look.

@cjk5933 Thanks for the kind words and glad you found the post useful. Your question is an excellent one and I'm still wrapping my brain around it, coming as I do from the high-end home system world to the portable audio world.
I'll say this: I find the portable/headphone experience to be quite different than the home audio experience, so it's not a matter of home "vs." portable, but rather, whether you find a portable experience musically satisfying and emotionally moving. I find that I listen differently via my Etymotic ER-4P IEM's and iBasso DX80 DAP than I do on my home rig. It's a more intimate experience in some ways. I'm planning on writing about this on my blog, but I don't yet have the vocabulary to do it! Give me some time and I'll have more to say.  ;-)

Every site has its place in the audio world. Audiogon is deep in traditional audiophile knowledge and values. I started the heavy lifting in audio 30+ yrs ago with tube amplifiers, turntables, speakers the size of small refrigerators, and so on. The search for ultimate quality in sound reproduction lives on in Audiogon, as well as other places. But Head-Fi.org is a matter entirely.

My appreciation for desktop audio, computer sound, and headphone listening has grown steadily for 5+ years, and after discovering and joining Head-Fi.org recently, I've learned an incredibly amount in a  short time. That community is everything Rebbi says--a deep & diverse knowledge resource, as well as a very flexible platform for buying and selling equipment germane to these pursuits.

My love of music, live and recorded, has been a constant since childhood. And now these file-based platforms, along with superior headphone designs, make this an exciting time to play with audio.

Part II of my blog series on the world of portable and headphone hi-fi it now live.

See 

https://stevefolberg.wordpress.com/2016/07/09/entering-the-parallel-audiophile-universe-part-ii/
 
and enjoy!

Part III of my blog series on The Alternative Universe of Portable High-End Audio is now live:

https://stevefolberg.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/entering-the-parallel-audiophile-universe-part-iii/

Enjoy!

To each his own.  I don't want to stop anyone from enjoying a portable system in preference to a more conventional system.  However, in the recent past I have experimented with different buds, high end phones, headphone amps, for I never will see any of them as replacing a real system.  No matter how much you spend, or how sophisticated the equipment gets, it is still mono in each ear.  For me, it will be a convenience option only